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No. 847,328. PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

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VEGETABLE PEELER.

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THOMAS FRANKLIN AND GEORGE LESLIE BELDING, OF WEST POINT, NEwYo K.

VEGETABLE-PEELEFL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed January 17, 1905. Serial No. 241,440.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS FRANKLIN and GEORGE LESLIE BELDING, citizens of the United States, and residents of West Point, in the county of. Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Peelers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the removal of the skins or peels of vegetables, such as potatoes, and has for its object the performance of the work by means of a machine that may be driven by hand or by power.

The object is attained by the means set forth in these specifications and the accompanying drawings, in which like letters and numbers refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Reference being first made to the drawings, Figure I is an elevation, partly in section, showing a complete machine. Fi II is a bottom view of the same. Fig. II represents a strainer used with the machine. Fig. IV shows the means for holding the strainer. Fig. V is a view of the detached strainer. Fig. VI shows a side opening in the outer cylinder of the machine. the door or slide to the opening in the side of Fig. VIII represents the grating-surfaces of the inner cylinder and the top of the rotating disk. Fig. IX is a top view of the interior of the machine. Fig. X is a plan of the cylinder-base. Fig. XI is a vertical cross-section of the cylinder-base. Fig. XII shows how vegetables are removed from the machine. Fig. XIII is an elevation of a machine for domestic use. Fig. XIV is an elevation in cross-section of a gear-driven machine. Fig. XV is a bottom view of a revolving cylinder. Fig.

XVII illustrates a clutch for the gearing. detail relating to the clutch.

The machine will be described herein as a potatoeeler, although it is not to be understood that its use will be limited to that purpose. It consists, as shown in Fig. I, of a cast base a, supported on legs 6 e, which rest on a bottom plate i, which may be extended into a support for the angle-pulleys j, as shown in Figs. I and II.

The base a has a vertical shaft-bearing q of the said bearing Fig. VII is a plan of for about two-thirds of its diameter and then curves upward in dish-like form, terminating in a flange t. A sheet-metal cylinder 11. sets within the flange t, and the cylinder is removable therefrom. supports a shaft it, he shaft also having a step-bearing in the hub 2 on the bottom plate. 011 the said shaft within the base is a perforated disk 1' of sheet metal. The form of base shown in Fig. XI provides an elongated central bearing for the driving-shaft while draining the water away from the bearing and toward the outlet at one side of the base. This base also provides a support for the cylinders and catches the water passing through the inner cylinder, while its downward curvature removes the floor of the base from the bottom disk to allow a free action thereof. A perforated cylinder 0 of smaller diameter than the cylinder 1) also sets within the base 0,, being supported on lugs t, Figs. I, IX, X, XI, resting on the shoulders 8. The projections 9 on said lugsare to afford bearings for the edge of the disk 7" in case an accumulation of weight on one side of the disk should cause it to droop; but the disk normally runs free of the lugs, having only its central support on the shaft. The cylinder 0 is also removable from the base a.

The disk 1" is made preferably convex with reference to the base a, and the perforations in the disk and also in the cylinder 0 are similar to the perforations in a grater, as indicated at 6 6, Fig. VIII, and the grating sides are toward the inside 01 the cylinder.

Potatoes are put within the inner cylinder, resting on the perforated disk. The disk XVI represents the re movable main spindles in the machine. Fig.

will be set in motion by means of the belt g; pulley f, and shaft h. Centrifugal force acting upon the inner layers of the potatoes and the rough surface of the disk scraping against the under .become violently agitated. The rough surface of the cylinder will prevent the outer layers of potatoes from simply rolling around the cylinder, and whenever a potato makes contact with the grating-surfaces some of the peeling will be removed from it, so that in. the general whirling about, in a surprisingly short space of time every potato will lose every article of its peelings. During the operation a stream of water is to be allowed The central bearing g The operation of the machine is as follows: 4

layers will cause the entire mass to I to flow among thepotatoes; which has the ef- F riiaI fect of removing the gratings of peel from the perforations, at the same time cleansing the potatoes, for as the water is thrown through the perforations of the inner cylinder it carries With it the particles of potato-skin.

' It will be observed that the perforated cylinder is entirely free from the base a except where it is sup orted by the lugs i, so that the water and tlie washings through the cylinder fall between theinner and outer cylinders down into the dishing base a. The washin s from the disk also drop into the base. pon one side 01 the base is an outlet m it toward and out of which the washings flow. The outlet n may be connected with a sewer.

' sides of the cylinders to facilitate the removal of the otatoes therefrom, as set forth in Figs. I, VI, II, IX, XII. In setting the cylinders in place on the base the door-openings'are made to' aline, as in Fi XI. Cleats 'w'w on the outer cylinder an w on the inner cylinder are adapted to have the doors or slides d d inserted within them, as shown in IX. Thedoors are of the same mateas the cylinders and are provided with handles, as at yy. When the potatoes are to be removed, the slides d d are withdrawn and one of the slides is thrust through the door-openings, as shown in Fig. XII, when as the potatoes pile up against the slide they roll out through the openings. I

I To facilitate holding the slide, a bar 4,

Figs. VI, XII, is secured across the doorwa vertically, affording a groove 5, Fig. V through which the slide is thrust, the slide then having a firm bearing against the inner cylinder and thebar 4 on the outer cylinder. In Fig. XII the potatoes are represented at p I .The machine-base a shown in Fig. I'has a dished bottom. Fi XI shows how the base may have a pitc of'the dishing bottom toward theoutlet 7, so that the washings will flow away more freely. At 7 is indicated the opening that terminates either in the outlet m 'n or only a pipe connection n.

Fig. XIII represents a form of machine adapted for domestic use differing from that shown in Fi I only in size and the means for driving 1t. A bracket 10 11. is attached directly to the base a, supporting a hand-wheel and angle-pulleys 13. The

is secured to the disk-spin le 21.

I the. up 1s pulley 14 drives the perforated disk. A belt same as in the machine shown ig. I, the bottom of the inner cylinder having several large fperforations, as at c, Fig. XV, to allow t e escape of washings from the disk. The revolving cylinder is supported on a hollow spindle 20, Figs. XIV and XVI, the bottom of the" cylinder resting on thecollar 24 and being secured by a nut 23. The disk is supporte on a shaft 21, that passes through the shaft resting against the collar 25 and 1 being secured by a ring-nut .9, preferably a plain nut being shown in Fig. XI The ring is to facilitate the lifting. of the disk and its shaft from the machine. Fig-XVI shows the disk-shaft being removed from the cylinder shaft. The gearing may be applied as in Fig. XIV. A bracket 31 is supported directly from the base a and has bearings 29 30 for the shaft 38, which is driven by pulley 37.

The gear-pinion 27 on the shaft 38 gears into the pinion 26, which is secured to the cylinder spindle 20; and into the 'inion 28:,[Wl1l?l 0ll n 1 XIV the u per pinion 26 is shown to be fa tened wit a set-screw 47, (indicated in broken lines;) but it is preferable to operate I er pinion by meansof a clutch, so that the d may be revolved without the rotation at the same time of the cylinder. This can be done by the use of-the set-screw; but it would make an inconvenient expedient. The reason why it is desirable to rotate the-disk and not the cylinder is that the cylinder must remainstationary when the potatoes are to be expelled from,themachine. A form of clutch is shown in Figs. XIV, XVII, and XVIII. The gear-pinion 26 turns freely on the spindle 20 and will revolve in mesh with the pinion 27 when not engaged with the clutch. A keyway 46 is rovided' in the spindle 20, and a key 45 to fit the keyway is secured in the sleeve 22, as in Fig. XVIII, so

that the sleeve is free to be movedwertically, but revolves with the shaft. A pin 33 in the sleeve will-engage with a hole 39 in the pinion,

and when so engaged the 'inion-will revolve with the sleeve and the s aft, or rather the pinion will then cause the rotation of the shaft. A lever 34 engages with segment 40 in the groove in the clutch for the manipulation of the clutch. The leveris pivoted to a bracket 35, Fig. XIV, having a notched branch 48'for limiting the movement of the lever and for holding it in place. As thus far described when the clutch was disengaged from the gear-pinion 26 the said pinion would ride upon the teeth of the driving-pinion 27. To avoid this and support the wheel 26 from undue pressure upon its driver, which might cause a breakage of gear-teeth, a collar 43. Fig. XVII, and a spring are interposed between the clutch and the pinion above it. The spring should be coiled 1n the direction the pinion will turn and fastened, respectively, to the pinion, as at 41, and to the collar, as at 44. The collar will turn upon the clutch and the spring will lift the weight of the pinion from the driver. A leg 32, attached to thebearings 30, gives a solid sup port to the belt end of the machine. By removing the lower gear-pinion 28 the cylinder 0 and disk 9" may be easily lifted from the machine for the purpose of cleaning the several parts, which is an im ortant consideration.

In the modified orm of the invention shown in Fig. XIV both of the cylinders are providedwith the doors, as shown in Figs. IX and XII, and with the screening-cup (shown in Fig. I) applied to the base, the operation of the parts being similar to that disclosed in Fig. I, with the exception that the perforated cylinder is adapted to be rotated in an opposite direction to the disk in order to facilitate the peeling operation. When it is desired to discharge the potatoes from the cylinder in'the "constructionshown in Fig.

I 'XIV, the revolving cylinder is thrown out of gear and the door therein brought opposite the opening in the exterior cylinder, when the slide is inserted, as shown'in Fig. XII, and the continued rotation of the disk causes the articles thereon to impinge against the slide and to be thrown outward through the openmg.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a peeling-machine, a base, an outer cylinder supported thereon provided with an opening in its side wall, an inner perforated rotatable cylinder s aced from the outer cylinder and provided with an opening in its side wall, a rotatable disk forming the bottom of the inner cylinder, closure-plates for each of said openings, and a driving-sh aft for said disk disposed beneath the same.

2. In a peeling-machine, a base, anouter cylinder supported thereon provided with an opening in its side wall, an inner rotatable perforated cylinder spaced from the outer cylinder and provided with an opening in its side wall, a rotatable bottom disk within the inner cylinder, closure-plates for each of said' openings, and means for rotating said disk in a direction opposite to the rotation of the inner cylinder or independent thereof.

3. In a peeling-machine, a base provided with a bearing, an outer cylinder supported upon said base, an inner perforated rotatable cylinder spaced from the outer cylinder, a rotatable disk forming the bottom of the inner cylinder, and a driving-shaft mounted in said bearing and carrying sa d disk at its upper end.

4. In a peeling-machine, a base having an annular dished portion and a central depending bearing, an outer cylinder supported at the periphery thereof, an inner cylinder spaced from the outer cylinder, a drivingshaft journaled at its u per end in said hearing, and a disk secure to said shaft at the bottom of the inner cylinder.

5. In a peeling-machine, a base, an outer cylinder supported thereby and provided with an opening therein, an inner cylinder provided with an opening therein and spaced from the outer cylinder, a closure for the opening of the inner cylinder, a rotatable disk within the inner cylinder, and means carried by the cylinders for supporting a con- I tact-plate extended through said openings when in alinement. I

6. In a peeling-machine, a base, an outer cylinder supported thereon provided with an opening in its side wall, an inner rotatable perforated cylinder spaced from the outer cylinder and provided with an opening in its side wall, a bottom disk within the inner cylinder, means for driving said disk, driving means for said inner cylinder, means for controlling the driving means of the inner cylinder, and an insertible member disposed within the openings in said walls.

7. In a peeling-machine, with a central bearing, an outer cylinder supported by said base, a sleeve rotatably mounted within said bearing, an inner cylinder carried by said sleeve, a spindle extending through said sleeve, a rotatable bottom disk carried by the upper end of said spindle within the inner cylinder, a driving-gear upon the lower end of said spindle, a driving-shaft geared to said spindle-gear, a gear loosely mounted upon said sleeve and meshing with the driving-shaft gear, and a clutch splined to the sleeve and adapted to engage the gear carried thereon.

8. In a peeling-machine, a concave base provided with an outlet-pipe having downwardly-inclined ways therein, and a screencup slidingly mounted upon said ways to normally lie diagonally to the vertical axis of the pipe whereby it is retained therein by gravity.

9. In a peeling-machine, a base havlng a central depending bearing-sleeve and a dishing bottom curving outwardly and downwardly from said sleeve and then upward above saidsleeve and terminating in a cylinder-supporting flange, and an outlet connection with said bottom.

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'10. In a peeling-machine, a plurality of Orange and State of New York, thi cylinders each provided with a side opening, of December, A. D. 1904. a bar spaced from the side wall of the opening THOMAS FRANKLIN. in the outer cylinder and extending vertically 5 across the same, and a slide adapted for in- Witnesses:

sertion between said bar and side Wall. IsAAo A. BOYLE.

Signed at West Point, in the county of F. W. Com.

s 28th day GEORGE LESLIE BELDING. 

